• SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
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    24 days ago

    Similarly, everyone benefits from roads, even if they don’t drive, even if they are a house hermit. What you thought you amazon package was just teleporting? Your life saving medicine? Your food?

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      24 days ago

      Everyone also suffers noise pollution, air pollution, and risks such as getting hit as a pedestrian. Extensive overbuilding of roads and sprawl is also a signifcant strain on municipal budgets which could diminish the quality of other services due to funding constraints.

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        24 days ago

        Sign me up for bulldozing entire cities to rebuild them without sprawl. I’m not too optimistic about it getting approval though.

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          They’ve already been bulldozed, look at all the parking lots and unnecessarily wide roads. The average US town or city has had more of its area destroyed by car infrastructure than London did after The Blitz.

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      23 days ago

      that’s such a disingenuous argument. Those are a tiny fraction of the traffic and you goddamn know the bulk of it is some fatzo sitting alone in his pollution machine